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diff --git a/patches/source/network-scripts/manpages/rc.inet1.8 b/patches/source/network-scripts/manpages/rc.inet1.8 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..648e0166e --- /dev/null +++ b/patches/source/network-scripts/manpages/rc.inet1.8 @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ +.\" -*- nroff -*- +.ds g \" empty +.ds G \" empty +.\" Like TP, but if specified indent is more than half +.\" the current line-length - indent, use the default indent. +.de Tp +.ie \\n(.$=0:((0\\$1)*2u>(\\n(.lu-\\n(.iu)) .TP +.el .TP "\\$1" +.. +.TH RC.INET1 8 "1 Oct 2018" "Slackware Version 15.0" +.SH NAME +rc.inet1 \- Slackware network configuration script. +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR rc.inet1 . +This script configures network interfaces. +Wireless interfaces are configured just like any network device +but accept many more configuration parameters. +.LP +rc.inet1 reads its configuration parameters from a file +.IR /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf . +The +.I rc.inet1.conf +file contains a series of variable array definitions, +with each array index corresponding to a single network interface. +.SH OPTIONS +The way to start your network (configuring your nics and +bringing the interfaces up, and creating a default route if required) +is by running the command: +.LP +.B /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 start +.LP +Restarting the whole network (all available network interfaces) +is done in a similar fashion: +.LP +.B /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart +.LP +More generally speaking, you can start/stop/restart any network +interface by running one of the commands: +.LP +.B /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 INTERFACE_start +.LP +.B /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 INTERFACE_stop +.LP +.B /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 INTERFACE_restart +.LP +where +.B INTERFACE +is the name of an existing network interface (eth0, wlan0, ...) +.SH WIRELESS +The script +.I rc.wireless +takes care of configuring the wireless parameters for a network +interface. This script does not run independently. Instead, it is executed +by the generic network configuration script +.IR rc.inet1 . +.LP +If a wireless interface is detected, +.I rc.wireless +will use +.IR iwconfig , +.I iwpriv +and possibly +.I wpa_supplicant +to associate the card with an access point (in managed mode) or peer it with +another computer (in ad-hoc mode), and enable an encryption modus like WPA. +.SH FILES +.TP 25 +.I /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 +network configuration script +.TP +.I /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf +parameter definition file (is being read by rc.inet1 and rc.wireless) +.TP +.I /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless +wireless configuration script +.TP +.I /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf +parameter definition file ( +.B deprecated +) +.SH DIAGNOSTICS +If you remove the executable bit from the +.I rc.wireless +script, it will never be executed. This can be beneficial if you have +written your own wireless script and don't want Slackware to mess it up. +.SH CAVEATS +The network interface definitions are stored in variable +.I arrays. +The bash shell has no facilities to retrieve the largest array index used. +Therefore, the +.I rc.inet1 +script makes the assumption that array indexes stay below the value of +.BR 6 . +Effectively this means that you can configure up to 6 network interfaces in +rc.inet1.conf by default. +.LP +If you want to configure more than six network interfaces, you will +have to edit the file +.I /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf +and change the value `6' in the line: +.br +.B \ \ #MAXNICS="6" +.br +(at the very bottom of the file) to a value that is larger than the largest +index value you use, and uncomment the line. +.LP +The /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless script is not meant to be run on its own by the user! +.SH AUTHORS +Patrick J. Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> +.br +Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> +.br +Robby Workman <rworkman@slackware.com> +.br +Darren 'Tadgy' Austin <darren@slackware.uk> +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR rc.inet1.conf(5), +.BR ip(8), +.BR iwconfig(8), +.BR route(8) |